Uncategorized Small Business Accounting Capabilities Being around a few of my friends this weekend who work for large corporates, it struck me that small businesses have an exceptional opportunity when…Paul Barnes
Uncategorized 8 Simple Slip Of The Tongues That Can Lose A Client Forever In a new pitch situation, there are times when you’d give your left leg to win a new client. They’re promising big things, it’s a…Paul Barnes
Uncategorized Account WatchList You may have noticed on the Dashboard page in the top right-hand side, a section called ‘Account Watchlist’. This section of Xero does exactly what…Paul Barnes
Uncategorized Creatives are from Mars, Accountants are from Venus 'My accountant doesn't understand me!' 'Accountants like numbers and facts. I have to have one, but there's no way I can explain how our creative…Paul Barnes
Uncategorized Don’t be the cheapest – someone will always out-cheap you! When you first start out as a creative agency, you really want work, don't you? So you offer to do work for free. You discount…Paul Barnes
Uncategorized Paul Barnes Wins 2014 Finance Professional of the Year at Manchester Young Talent Awards We are over the moon to be able to share with you all that Paul Barnes is Manchester's Finance Professional of the Year 2014! Last…Paul Barnes
Uncategorized Why your creative agency should listen to your mother’s advice What do your mother and kept promises have to do with running your creative agency? Well, when children, our mothers firmly encouraged us (i.e. forced…Paul Barnes
Uncategorized Thank you! Thank you for subscribing to our updates. You have our word that we will never, ever share, sell, rent or otherwise do anything naughty with…Amanda Wilcox
Uncategorized The 6 Reasons you should be using Contractors (and 3 reasons you shouldn’t) Joergelman / Pixabay Outsourced Contractors are members of your team that aren't on your payroll. For example, imagine a client asking for a 3D walk…Paul Barnes
Uncategorized Forecasting didn’t work for Michael Fish, (but it can for you) Everyone knows the story. In 1987, Michael Fish in his now infamous forecast told the nation not to worry as there wasn't a hurricane on…Paul Barnes